Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community - Couverture souple

Dorais, Louis-Jacques

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802079520 ISBN 13 : 9780802079527

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1997

Synopsis

How, in a world that is drastically changing, can the Inuit preserve their identity? Louis-Jacques Dorais explores this question in Quaqtaq, the first ethnography of a contemporary Canadian Inuit community to be published in over twenty-five years.

The community of Quaqtaq is a small village on Hudson Strait where hunting and gathering are still the mainstays of life. In this description of Quaqtaq, based on data collected over a thirty-year period, we get a glimpse of its early cultural history, its development into a settled community, and its present realities. Dorais identifies three principal manifestations of local identity - kinship, religion, and language - that persist despite the brutal intrusion of modernity. He concludes by examining the role politics and education have played in the relationship between Quaqtaq and the outside world.

Quaqtaq is a unique and important study that will be of interest to scholars, administrators, and citizens of Inuit and other native communities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Louis-Jacques Dorais is Professor of Anthropology, Université Laval, and is editor of Études/Inuit/Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802079520
• ISBN 13: 9780802079527
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible